Know Your Conditioning

I grew up in a family where “no” was often the answer for every request I made.  Eventually, in order to do something I was really interested, I learned not to ask for approval, or I was just hiding myself.  Gradually this has become a habit and a conditioning to me.  I was just not comfortable telling others what I was really up to and I needed to hide myself.

Can you see how this conditioning is setting all the limits on myself?

The family we grew up, the education we got, the religions and culture we have been exposed to, set up all different kinds of conditioning on us and prevent us from living out our true self and create all the conflicts and struggles in our life.

To liberate ourselves from all these conditionings and live out our true Self requires us to know our obstacles to freedom.  Why do you feel conflicted?  Why are you scared of doing certain things?  What’s your fear?

Life is here to set us free from all these obstacles and conditioning.  Whenever life put you in a situation you feel conflicted, there must be something worth digging.  Liberate yourself there!

By Suzanne Yang